Audrey M. Elegbede PhD, PCC, ELI-MP, CLDS, CTDS
Educator, Speaker, Coach, Consultant
Audrey Elegbede, PhD, PCC, ELI-MP, CTDS, CTDS, is a highly sought after educator, speaker, coach, and consultant on issues of education and innovation, educational leadership, leadership development, race and racial equity, social justice advocacy, anti-oppression initiatives, and parenting individuals with autism spectrum disorders. She has spoken to audiences of health professionals, academics and educators, and service professionals, and conducted short- and long-term trainings for audiences of 10 -4000. She has also successfully coached medical professionals, business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, TedTalk speakers, educators, students, disability advocates, and parents. Dr. Elegbede has helped clients build working models on equity and inclusion, and guided organizations in developing cultures of humility, resiliency, and responsiveness. She has helped coaching clients emerge from dark moments of self-doubt and exhaustion to a point of taking first steps towards their goals. She has assisted high performers to step-up their game and reach for goals they never thought possible, and she has facilitated clients to channel their mental energy and focus to reach goals faster, with fewer barriers, and to greater success.
Dr. Elegbede is Assistant Professor of Medical Education with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and Curriculum and Assessment Manager with the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. Former Assistant Professor/Lecturer of Ethnic Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Anthropology at Winona State University and University of Wisconsin – La Crosse respectively, Dr. Elegbede is an award-winning educator and she holds a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Brown University with expertise in Demographic, Medical, and Applied Anthropology. She has over 20 years of experience in higher education, has developed and implemented departmental curriculum, held Provost- appointed leadership positions, chartered equity-focused and anti-oppression interest groups, and presented and published nationally and internationally. Dr. Elegbede was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and she has received Fulbright, Mellon, National Science Foundation, and National Institute of Health grants.
Dr. Elegbede’s work centers Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, social justice approaches and anti-oppression pedagogies, and her course on white privilege at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse was the first cataloged course on the subject within the University of Wisconsin System. She has taught courses on various topics including racial representation in media, methods and theory in ethnic studies, social justice research, mindfulness in anti-oppression engagement, white privilege and white supremacy, multiracial and multicultural identities, feminism and feminist theory, and Islam in the U.S.
Dr. Elegbede is also an active disability advocate, is a member of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) Advisory Board, and is Vice-President of the RT Autism Awareness Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota. She has supported, coached, and trained parents of children with special needs, particularly autism spectrum disorders, throughout the Midwestern United States on advocacy and self-care for their children and themselves.
Dr. Elegbede is a highly sought-after public speaker that has spoken to audiences of health professionals, academics and educators, and service professionals. She has been invited presenter on issues of systemic racism, white privilege, health disparities, worldviews of health, working with Muslim communities, culturally responsive service provision, and social justice advocacy for Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, WI, The Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care, the Rochester NAACP, The Autism Society of Minnesota and the Greater Wisconsin Autism Society, Olmsted County of Minnesota, the Anoka-Hennepin School District of MN, the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Viterbo University, and the Chileda Institute in La Crosse, WI. She routinely shares her expertise on the intersections of race and ability with service organizations through her private consulting work.
Dr. Elegbede is also a certified professional coach with training in Core Energy Coaching ™, COR.E Dynamics™, Scope™, and the Energy Leadership Index Assessment (ELI) ™, and she holds her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential for the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In 2018, Forbes Magazine identified the ELI as one of the top 11 Assessments Every Executive Should Take, and in 2020 Business News Daily noted that energy leadership, “when practiced with intention…can drastically improve your personal and professional relationships, which, in turn, can transform your business.” She attended the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), one of the premiere coach training programs in the world and an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited institution, has advanced training in Leadership and Transition as a COR.E Dynamics Specialist, and she is a member of the ICF-MN Chapter.
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